11.1 Most important PLC producers

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Lecture 11

• 11.1 Most important PLC producers
• 11.2 Families of PLC
• (SW for programming of PLC)
• 11.3 HMI
• 11.4 Visualization of technological processes

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11.1Most important PLC producers

• Siemens - Germany
• AB (Allen Bradley) US
• Schneider Electric (Modicon) France
• Mitsubishi Japan
• ABB - Germany
• SAIA Switzerland
• GE Fanuc - US
• BR (Bernecker Reiner) Austria
• Teco Czech Republic

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Most important PLC producers-2

• Siemens (see Case study 2)
• Schneider Electric (see Case study 1)
• FESTO (see Lecture of Ing. Haumer, Festo corp.,
  Case study 3 - Pneumatic axis)
• Teco (see Case study 3 Teach - in)

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11.2 Families of PLC SiemensSIMATIC S5 older
issue

• Low performance group (up to 448 digital I/O and
  41 analogue I/O))
• SIMATIC S5-90U
• SIMATIC S5-95U/F
• SIMATIC S5-100U
• Middle performance group
• SIMATIC S5-115U/F
• High performance group (10 000 I/O)
• SIMATIC S5-135
• SIMATIC S5-155/U/H/F

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Families of PLC SiemensSIMATIC S5 older
issue - 2

• Special programators (HW devices, not PCs) for
  software application creating
• Software tool for project programming, debuging,
  management and documentation preparation STEP 5
• Networks SINEC
• HMI COROS

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Families of PLC SiemensSIMATIC S7 new issue

• S7-200 - microsystems
• S7-300 - middle class
• C7 (S7-300OPOPLC)
• S7-400 - high performance control system

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Families of PLC SiemensSIMATIC S7 new issue
- 2

• PCs for programming
• Software tool for project programming, debuging,
  management and documentation preparation STEP7
• - version Standard or Mini for SIMATIC
  S7- 300, SIMATIC C7 and SIMATIC S7-400
• - version Micro/WIN for S7-200

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Families of PLC SiemensSIMATIC S7 new issue
- 3

• In STEP7 Standard and STEP7-Mini the standard
  IEC 1131-3 is supported. Languages LD, FBD, IL
  (ST) are at disposal and it is possible to use
  all these languages in one project.
• Software tools for program diagnosis,
  communication and hardware configuration are also
  included
• Large projects and team collaboration is supported

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Families of PLC SiemensSIMATIC S7 new issue
- 4

• New programming tools
• SCF, Graph, HiGraph, SCL, CFC (engineering
  tools, very expensive, for large projects)
• See Case Study 2 (Siemens)

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Families of PLC Schneider Electric

• Name Performance
• Twido low
• TSX Nano
• TSX Micro
• TSX Premium
• TSX Quantum high

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PL7-ProSoftware tool for Schneider Electric
programming
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Families of PLC - Festo

• CHIP_at_IPC - high performance iPC in one chip
• IPC PS1 - large modular system for demanding
  applications
• IPC FEC Standard-middle class system
• -Types FEC FC4XX, FEC FC6XX,
• IPC FEC Compact-low-cost class system
• -Types FEC FC 2X, FEC FC3X
• SPC 200 for pneumatic axis control

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Families of PLC Festo -2
IPC PS1 with basis for five modules with one
processor module
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Families of PLC Festo -3

• FEC FC 34 PS1 FC 38

Both PLCs implemented on FESTIK man-robot
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Families of PLC - Teco

• Older issue
• Tecomat NS 946
• Tecomat NS 940
• Tecomat NS 950
• New issue
• Tecomat TC400
• Tecomat TC500 (OPLC)
• Tecomat TC600
• Tecomat TC400
• Tecomat TC700 (new in 2003)

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11.3 HMI

• HMI Human Machine Interface
• MMI Man Machine Interface
• (older name for HMI)
• SCADA Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition
• HW and SW means for operator and supervisor
  control
• (various types of operator panels and PCs,
  software packages for operator panels programming
  and for visualization)

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HMI - Operator panels

• Two main parts
• display - only textual
• - graphical - monochromatic
• - colour
• buttons - with predefined meaning
• (minimal configuration
• up, down, OK, ESC)
• - free for user configuration
• - numerical

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Operator panels - 2
Textual operator panel TD2OO (Siemens)
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Operator panels - 3

• Textual operator panel TD200
• Suitable for simple HMI applications in
  connection with PLC SIMATIC S7-200
• LCD displey with two rows for 20 characters
• Four function keys (buttons) F1 to F4
• Four system keys (buttons)
• - (up, down for listing through messages and
  parameters setting, OK confirmation, ESC
  return)

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Operator panels - 4

• For connection to the PLC SIMATIC S7-200 or to
  the PC only one interface PPI (peer to peer
  interface) - RS 485.
• Speed 9,6/19.2/187,5 kbit/s.

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Operator panels - 5
Touch panel TP070 (Siemens)
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Operator panels - 6

• Touch panel TP070
• Suitable for simple or more complicated HMI
  applications in connection with PLC SIMATIC
  S7-200
• The smallest operator panel build on Windows CE
  architecture
• It is possible to display user grafics, dynamic
  bar graphs, dynamic application variables, user
  buttons in four intensities of gray
• graphics resolution 320x240 pixels
• One interface RS 485, maximal speed 19,2 kbit/s

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Operator panels - 7

• Touch panel TP070 based on 32-bits processor
  RISC/66 MHz and user memory flash 128 Kbyte.
• life cycle 6 years continuously
• For programming TP Designer in collaboration
  with MicroWIN V3.1 and higher.
• It is possible to connect this panel to another
  devices with MPI cable or Profibus DP cable.

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Operator panels - 8
Multipanel MP370 (Siemens)
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11.4 Visualization of technological processes

• Representation of technological process behavior
  on display (operator panel or PC)
• Technological information
• - (technological variables values e.g.
  pressure, temperature, level, position, number of
  pieces, type of pieces, delays etc.)
• Information about control of the process
• - (state of sensors, state of actuators,
  controller parameters, step in sequential control
  etc.)

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Visualization of technological processes - 2

• Operator interface for
• Change of individual parameters or the whole set
  of parameters (data structure recipe)
• Manual control of the process (e.g. possibility
  to manipulate with motors)
• Error handling
• Alarm procesing
• Data acquisition (e.g. for longterm statistic
  evaluation of quality or performance)

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Visualization of technological processes - 3

• SW for visualization
• Siemens WinCC
• Schneider Electric PL7 Pro (only for simple
  applications)
• Festo ViP
• Teco Reliance
• Large SW packages for visualization (drivers for
  most famous PLCs)

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Visualization of technological processes - 4

• Large SW packages for visualization (drivers for
  most famous PLCs)
• InTouch (Wonderware corp.)
• WinCC (Siemens)
• RS View (Allen Bradley)
• Vip (Festo)

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Visualization of industrial processes example
in PL7Pro Schneider Electric
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Visualization of industrial processes example
in PL7Pro Schneider Electric -2

• Three pneumatic cylinders (motors),
• Interface for operator (buttons for manual
  operating the technological process)
• Technological parameters displaying (number of
  pieces, time delays, etc.)
• Variables so called Tags in the left column

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FESTIK - man robot
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FESTIK - man robot - 2
Pneumatic part
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FESTIK - man robot - 3
Visualization in MS Excel